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| Charlotte Gainsbourg | ... | Janine Castang | |
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Didier Bezace | ... | Michel Davenne |
| Simon de La Brosse | ... | Raoul | |
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Clotilde de Bayser | ... | Séverine Longuet |
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Raoul Billerey | ... | Rouleau |
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Chantal Banlier | ... | Léa |
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Nathalie Cardone | ... | Mauricette |
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Renée Faure | ... | La Mère Busato |
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Catherine Arditi | ... | La directrice école |
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Gilbert Bahon | ... | Le brigadier |
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Clothilde Baudon | ... | Bonnin |
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Joëlle Bruyas | ... | Soeur Marie-Odile |
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Denise Chiabaut | ... | Le doctresse |
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Philippe Deplanche | ... | Jacques Longuet |
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Erick Deshors | ... | Raymond |
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In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel Davenne, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette Dargelos, a photographer and fellow prisoner) help her learn from her mistakes. Written by English Showalter <showalte@crab.rutgers.edu>
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François Truffaut's scenario offered the leading character Janine Castang as a female counterpart to the character Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows (1959). See more »Connections
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$1,055,416Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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It's a good thing this belated tribute to Francois Truffaut was adapted from an original story by the late director himself; otherwise the film might be mistaken for a plagiarism. The story itself is a distaff companion piece to 'The 400 Blows', following a compulsive teenage kleptomaniac in post-War France, whose sticky fingers and rebellious disposition land her in and out of jail, and in and out of love. Charlotte Gainsbourg is certainly appealing in the title role, but Claude Miller's direction is perfunctory, at best; he places each scene in the correct order but has little feeling for the material, other than an obvious respect for its author, whose name alone is enough to lend the film some token credibility. Enough incidental pleasures survive the awkward adaptation to make it a worthwhile diversion for any dedicated Francophile, and a must-see for die-hard Truffaut fans, but the film suffers from an ending that might lead viewers to suspect Miller was working from an incomplete outline.